ON THE WEATHER 



stomachs, who could stand on the bridge 

 and nose it all day long, and I begrudged 

 the sea-gulls their easy enjo5mient of it. No ; 

 when we say we are not suited with the 

 weather, it is always some little defect of 

 our own that is to blame, and usually one 

 that could be easily remedied. With Pro- 

 fessor Bailey, I hope the time will soon 

 come when intelligent people will cease to 

 talk about "bad" weather. 



A twin superstition is the one about 

 "bad" climates. We are forever hearing 

 that this or that district has a bad climate — 

 "an unhealthy climate," they call it in the 

 vernacular. Science has demonstrated that 

 there is no such thing. Where people used 

 to charge the ague up to the climate, we now 

 know that we are dealing only with mos- 

 quitoes. Even the dreaded yellow fever is 

 not propagated by an untoward climate, 

 but it, too, is spread abroad by insects. 



Any climate is good if you get enough 

 of it. Men with weak lungs used to go to 

 Colorado and be cured. It was because they 

 were obliged to live out-of-doors in Colo- 

 rado. The men who have done the most 

 to stop the ravages of the white plague have 

 done it by making their patients take the 



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